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swampers

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plural of swamper

as in laborers

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Meanwhile, $12 million will go to a fund supporting out-of-work entertainment industry laborers.

— Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2026
Without fiefdoms structuring the distribution of land, the division of labor, and the provision of military protection, agents of state coercion were needed to ensure that former serfs would serve as wage laborers.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of laborers

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Conrad has done an outstanding job of pulling together a team of local workers at all levels of the business.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
During the boom years of the reform era, from 1978 to the early 2000s, China was a country of productive workers.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of workers

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Norma Mitchell, cofounder of the business and grandmother of its current top executives, died of the disease, and many other family members, employees and customers have been touched by it.

— Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026
Nearly eight in 10 Marriott associates in Europe say they are offered training or development to further themselves professionally, compared with just over half of employees at a typical European workplace.

— Ted Kitterman, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of employees

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No matter how powerful, dictators have always needed subordinates—censors, propagandists, security guards, police officers, intelligence analysts, and local bureaucrats—to carry out their orders.

— Seva Gunitsky, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2026
Investigators have accused one of his subordinates of running a fraud scheme, though Kravchenko himself has not been charged or named a suspect.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of subordinates

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Ellison is said to be a boss who is loyal to his underlings, particularly with his own hires.

— Michael Schneider, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
Later, Bianco directed his underlings to begin counting those ballots by hand — a potential felony under state law, which forbids anyone other than election officials from so much as touching a ballot container.

— Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026

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